Laboratory and University Core Facility Research Equipment Program Award Recipients

The following Purdue faculty received funding through the Research Instrumentation Program.

2024-26 Type I Awardees

• Rakesh Agrawal; Chemical Engineering; Engineering; Acquisition of Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Spectroscopy Equipment with Ultraviolet-Infrared Capabilities for Optoelectronic Characterization of Semiconductors
• Mary Catherine Aime; Botany & Plant Pathology; Agriculture; Core Facility: Acquisition of an inverted benchtop fluorescence microscope for the Purdue University Herbaria
• Kingsly Ambrose; Agricultural and Biological Engineering; Engineering; Retrofitting X-ray sCMOS detector for the Skyscan X-ray MicroCT
• Aniket Bera; Computer Science; Science; Acquisition of a Humanoid Robot Platform for Advancing Multi-Agent Motion Planning, Human-Robot Collaboration, and Adaptive Autonomy Research
• Harold Cooper; Anthropology; Liberal Arts; Portable X-Ray Fluorescence for Materials Analysis in Art, Archaeology, and Engineering
• Vincent Jo Davisson; Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology; Pharmacy; Upgrade of Essential Laboratory HPLC System
• Bryce Jensen Dietrich; Political Science; Liberal Arts; Outfitting the Joe and Maggie Kernan Experimental Social Science Lab with Equipment for Psychophysiological Measurement
• Igor Alexandre Fernandes; Health and Kinesiology; Health and Human Sciences; Acquisition of a Baro-Chamber (Neck Collar Device) for Manipulating Arterial Pressure and Quantifying Autonomic and Hemodynamic Responses in Awake Humans
• Timothy P Gavin; Health and Kinesiology; Health and Human Sciences; Acquisition of frequency-domain near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) device for the measurement of brain and skeletal muscle oxygenation
• Mark Hall; Biochemistry; Agriculture; Acquisition of a fully automated benchtop fluorescence microscope system with time-lapse live cell imaging for shared Department of Biochemistry use
• John Harwood; Chemistry; Science; Update and Upgrade of Control System for 800 MHz NMR Spectrometer Magnet System
• Ahmed Hassan; Comparative Pathobiology; Veterinary Medicine; Acquisition of a gel (agarose and SDS-PAGE) and Western blot imager with stain-free, chemiluminescence and fluorescence capabilities
• Ryan T Hilger; Chemistry; Science; Acquisition of a metrology-grade 3D scanner
• Daniel Hirai; Health and Kinesiology; Health and Human Sciences; Acquisition of a Microscopy System for Live Sample Imaging of Capillary Red Blood Cell Hemodynamics and Oxygenation
• Natalya Kaganovich; Speech; Language, and Hearing Sciences; Health and Human Sciences; Acquisition of an EyeLink Eye-Tracker to support work on the relationship between audiovisual processing and language skills in children with developmental language disorder
• Brandon M Keehn; Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences; Health and Human Sciences; Acquisition of state-of-the-art integrated visual display and eye-tracking system for the Purdue MRI user community
• Kee Hong Kim; Food Science; Agriculture; Acquisition of an EVOS M5000 Imaging System
• Alexander Laskin; Chemistry; Science; Core Facility: Expanding Capabilities of an Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope for High-throughput Automated Analysis of Sub-micrometer Particles and Inclusions
• Venkatesh P Thirumalaikumar; Bindley Bioscience Center; Discovery Park / Pharmacy; Acquisition of High-Field Asymmetric Waveform Ion Mobility Spectrometry (FAIMS)
• Timothee L Pourpoint; Aeronautics and Astronautics; Engineering; Acquisition of roughing and turbomolecular pumps for thermal vacuum chambers
• Li Qiao; Aeronautics and Astronautics; Engineering; Establishing a Research Facility for Studying Battery Thermal Runaway and Fire Safety
• Dennis Savaiano; Nutrition Science; Health and Human Sciences; A new metabolic cart to measure oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production through indirect calorimetry for the Purdue Clinical Research Center
• Thomas H Siegmund; Mechanical Engineering; Engineering; Acquisition of a 5 kN Capacity – High Resolution Mechanical Load System
• Dengfeng Sun; Aeronautics and Astronautics; Engineering; Acquisition of A Self-Aware AAM Testbed for Dynamic Data-Driven Aerospace Digital Twins
• Bruno Tesini Roseguini; Health and Kinesiology; Health and Human Sciences; Acquisition of a Magnetic Resonance-Compatible Exercise Ergometer for the Purdue MRI Facility
• Val Watts; Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology; Pharmacy; Acquisition of a Cytation 1 as the modern replacement for the existing Cytation 3
• Jin Wei-Kocsis; Computer and Information Technology; Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Acquisition of Humanoid Robot Platforms
• Jeffrey Youngblood; Materials Engineering; Engineering; Replacement of General Use Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TGA) in the Soft Materials Characterization Core Recharge Facility
• Dmitry Y Zemlyanov; Birck Nanotechnology Center; Engineering; Material Innovation Platform for Nano-Fabrication and Stacking of Air/Moisture-Sensitive 2D Van der Waals Quantum Materials with Integrated Ar Glovebox and UHV Sample Transfer System
• Xinghang Zhang; Materials Engineering; Engineering; Acquisition of a modern multifunction tribology instrument for evaluation of advanced materials

2024-26 Type II Awardees

• Caroline Fulkerson; Veterinary Clinical Sciences; Veterinary Medicine; Acquisition of GE Signa Champion 1.5T MRI Scanner
• Jill Hutchcroft; Bindley Bioscience Center; Discovery Park; Acquisition of a Spectral Flow Cytometer
• Hyunyoung Jeong; Industrial amd Molecular Pharmaceutics; Pharmacy; Sciex ZenoTOF 7600 Mass Spectrometer
• Brittany Newell; Engineering Technology; Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Acquisition of a High Resolution Multi-material Microelectronics Printer
• Matthew Scarpelli; Health Sciences; Health and Human Sciences; Acquisition of a Preclinical X-ray Irradiator
• Yaguang Zhang; Agricultural and Biological Engineering; Agriculture; Tractor Auto Pilot (TAP): Innovating Farmer-Centric Solutions for Automating Agricultural Vehicles with Advanced Rural Wireless and Physical AI
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